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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
The following interview is with Michael Promisel, a summer intern working in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. It is part of a series of interviews that introduce our summer interns to In Custodia Legis readers. Describe your background Although I cannot proclaim a direct line of descent, my background can …
Posted in: Collections, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Ruth Levush
The following is a guest post by Chayada Polpun, a summer intern working in the Global Legal Research Center (GLRC), Law Library of Congress. I interviewed Chayada recently. You can learn about Chayada’s background and her work at GLRC by reading her interview which was published in In Custodia Legis on August 22, 2013. It is my pleasure to share my experience …
Posted in: Collections
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
Today it is my turn to contribute to our Global Legal Collection Highlights series. The idea of this series, as is probably clear from its name, is to highlight our foreign law collection and keep In Custodia Legis readers abreast of new and/or interesting items that have been added. We have recently had posts that …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This is the fourth post in our Global Legal Collection Highlights series, following posts on Russian law, Kuwait business law, and European Union law. Be sure to let us know in the comments if there is a particular country that you would like us to cover in this series! When I started working at the …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
This is a guest post by Hilary Ott, the Deanna Marcum Fellow for the summer of 2013. Hilary has spent the past five weeks working in the Law Library examining engravings in 17th and 18th century law books from northern Europe. Part of my project at the Law Library this summer has been to identify …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Several years ago, I came across a reference in the Congressional Globe to some sort of crime which seemed to have been committed by a member of Congress. I was intrigued and being an avid mystery reader, wanted to discover who had done what to whom! The entry which originally caught my eye appeared on …
Posted in: Collections, Congress
Posted by: Ruth Levush
The following is a guest post by Theresa Papademetriou who is the Law Library of Congress Senior Foreign Law Specialist for the European Union, Greece, and Cyprus. Theresa has previously blogged on “European Union: Where is the Beef?“, on “New Greek Regulation Designed to Fight Tax Evasion Problem: Will it Work?” and on “The Cyprus Banking Crisis and …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Kurt Carroll
This post is an interview with Mark Niedziela. Mark is working in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library of Congress as part of the institution’s Junior Fellows Program. The program’s focus is to increase access to our collections for our various patron groups. Describe your background. I was born in New Jersey and …
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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The political right to pursue happiness is one of the truly unique contributions of the Declaration of Independence. Today’s pic of …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week